Approximately 29% of the earth's surface is dry land, while the remaining 71% is covered by water.
The United States occupies approximately 6.5% of the world's land area.
Rainforests cover approximately 6-7% of the world's land surface.
World maps typically show the dry land areas of tectonic plates because these are the visible parts of the Earth's crust. The boundaries of tectonic plates are often marked by geological features such as mountain ranges, earthquakes, and volcanic activity, which are easier to observe on land than in the oceans. Additionally, the distribution of continents and oceans is influenced by the movement of tectonic plates.
The Pacific Ocean covers approximately one third of the Earth's surface, making it the largest and deepest ocean in the world.
Irrigation.
About 20%
25 percent
Well since 1/4 of the world is made of water and the other 3/4 is land, approximately 32% of the land is tree, considering the rain forests we have in the southern areas near the equator.
The world is mostly covered with water instead of land because of continental and oceanic crusts. The world is roughly 70 percent water and 30 percent land.
33 percent of the land surface of the earth is desert.
Only 15 percent of the land in China is able to be cultivated. Of this land accounts for only 10 percent of the land in the world that can be cultivated.
Water covers 25% of the world.
25 percent
Approximately 40% of the world's land area is covered by grasslands.
The 3 continents that make up fifty three percent of the world's land but eighty one percent of its population areEurope, Asia, and Africa
The Gobi is the coldest and most northern desert in the world. It is mostly dry, rocky, sandy soil with only about 5 percent of the land covered with sand dunes.Clarification:Antarctica is actually the coldest desert in the world.
Ice is available in most inhabited land areas of the world.